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| Author: | TraderJoe [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:40 pm ] |
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This is a trivial problem, compared to some. While edit ship names, I found I was unable to generate a ~ character in the name. I have not found any other keys that do not work. Is this normal, or is the tilde a reserved key? ( Or maybe just my fat fingers ) It's no big problem, I'm just curious about it. TJoe |
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| Author: | Harley Nuss [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:01 pm ] |
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I don't believe the game in general recognizes a tilde, even on comms in game. For one reason or another, that's just how it was designed. |
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| Author: | TraderJoe [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:09 pm ] |
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Do you know of any other keys that "won't work". Again, just being curious. [:)] TJoe |
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| Author: | Harley Nuss [ Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:47 am ] |
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Most extended ascii characters are non-responsive. As to normal keyboard characters, I can't think of any right off hand. |
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| Author: | TraderJoe [ Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:32 am ] |
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Thanks for the info ! [:)] TJoe |
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| Author: | Orion_Blastar [ Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:25 pm ] |
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They need to be, some characters like the pipe "|" can be used to create exploits. I recall some BBS users using that to pipe out a shell to command.com or some other program to get control of a BBS using pkzip or some other DOS program like the external protocols. Most BBS programs have fixed this and filter out those type of characters from filename entries, etc. Therefore, I think it is a good security measure to filter out characters like that and keep it to letters and numbers and normal ASCII characters. |
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